Mediagazer: ESPN fires employee over racist Jeremy Lin headline (Lucas Shaw/The Baltimore Sun)

11:05 AM ET, February 20, 2012

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Lucas Shaw / The Baltimore Sun:

ESPN fires employee over racist Jeremy Lin headline — ESPN has fired one employee and suspended another for using the same racist word in connection to New York Knicks' guard Jeremy Lin. In both cases, an employee used the word “chink” in reference to Lin, a Palo Alto, California, native of Chinese descent.

David Carr / New York Times:

Media Hype for Lin Stumbles on Race — You don't have to be an economics graduate from Harvard like Jeremy Lin to do the math on the media explosion about Linsanity. — The suddenly celebrated Lin is a four-fer: a God-fearing, Asian-American, Ivy League benchwarmer who has changed the fortunes of the New York Knicks.

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Rachel McAthy / Journalism.co.uk:

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James Barron / New York Times:

Anthony Shadid, Times Correspondent, Posthumously Honored — A 24-year-old reporter who covered the sexual abuse scandal at Penn State and a Maine newspaper that uncovered substandard conditions in subsidized housing were among the winners of George Polk Awards in Journalism for 2011 announced …

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Martin Phillips / The Sun:

The Sun next Sunday — A historic announcement — from Britain's most popular paper — THE Sun on Sunday has arrived. — Next weekend will see the birth of the first ever Sunday edition of your favourite paper. — Rupert Murdoch announced last week that The Sun on Sunday would be coming “very soon”.

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Guardian:

Rupert Murdoch to launch Sun on Sunday next weekend — News International says media mogul will stay in London to oversee birth of News of the World replacement — The Sun on Sunday will publish for the first time next weekend, News International has announced.

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Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:
No bail curbs to stop return of arrested Sun journalists

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Sun on Sunday to be edited by Dominic Mohan

Duncan Gardham / Telegraph:

Bulger killer could be in line for compensation from News of the World — One of the killers of James Bulger is seeking to sue News International for more than £50,000 after he was informed that his phone may have been hacked by the News of the World. — Robert Thompson

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Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Rupert Murdoch letter to News International staff ‘full of legal errors’

Bill Keller / New York Times:

WikiLeaks, a Postscript — THIS is apparently the revenge of Julian Assange: everyone who runs afoul of the rock-star leaker is condemned to spend eternity discussing the cosmic meaning of WikiLeaks. As the editor of The Times during our publication of many articles based on that treasury …

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

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Will Bunch / Philly.com:

An open letter to the next owners of Philadelphia Media Networks — Dear next owner of Philadelphia Media Networks...whoever you are, — I've been meaning to write you for a couple of weeks — it's been hard what with all the confusion not only about what we're allowed or not allowed …

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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:

Profitable news — One of the most controversial things I have said (you're welcome for that straight line) is that I insist my entrepreneurial journalism students at CUNY build only for-profit businesses. When I said that at a recent symposium for teachers of entrepreneurial journalism …

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